Detection of Deception
The Last Archive
Pushkin Industries
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
When James Frye, a young black man, is charged with murder under unusual circumstances in 1922, he trusts his fate to a strange new machine: the lie detector. Why did the lie detector’s inventor, William Moulton Marston, a psychology professor and lawyer, think a machine could tell if a human being is lying better than a jury? And what does it all have to do with Wonder Woman?
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:07.0 | Imagine there's a place in our world where the known things go. |
| 0:15.0 | A corridor of the mind, its walls lined with shelves, stocked with proof, and cluttered with clues. with |
| 0:24.9 | stocked with proof and cluttered with clues. |
| 0:29.9 | Here, over on top of this filing cabinet, a wooden box with a brass nameplate. W. M. M. |
| 0:37.0 | Damn, it's locked. |
| 0:41.0 | This place, this vault stores the facts that matter and matters of fact. |
| 0:49.4 | All that stands between reasonable doubt and the chaos of uncertainty. |
| 0:55.0 | It lies in a time between now and then. |
| 0:59.0 | The sign on the door reads, |
| 1:02.0 | The last Archive. The Last Archive. |
| 1:05.0 | Wind your watch back a century. |
| 1:07.0 | Step across the threshold. |
| 1:09.0 | And into... |
| 1:10.0 | A lecture hall. The class met twice a week at American University, |
| 1:20.0 | two blocks from the White House in the spring of 1922 in the evening. |
| 1:25.0 | All the students were lawyers. There were young men. |
| 1:29.0 | The professor, only 28, was hardly older than his students. |
| 1:32.0 | William Moulton Marston. Only 28 was hardly older than his students. |
| 1:32.9 | William Molton Marston. |
| 1:35.6 | But Professor Marston had a BA and a JD and a PhD. |
| 1:40.0 | He was an intellectual rogue, handsome, dangerously charming, almost as charming as he was ambitious. |
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